Scenes from Christmas 2010.

Whew! Time flies fast. Can't believe it is now another year end, and another Christmas to celebrate. This year we got the two precious some animal figures for Dylan, and for Chloe, a Barbie doll from me and Elefun from Esther.

Project BM 1/6th Scale Tetsuo Shima

"We are all made of stardusts".

...and here's the much anticipated companion piece to Kaneda, the need-not-introduce gila gila antagonist, Tetsuo Shima, from the, here I go again, epic 1988 anime movie, Akira (I wonder why I am reduce to such a fan boy each time I mention the movie?). Honestly, it is overprice as usual from Project BM (the DiD Nazi mountain trooper "Hanke" costs almost half of Tetsuo's and comes with tonnes of accessories and mountain "gears") but wot the heck, it's a companion piece. Put it simply, it is just something I could not miss after having Kaneda and his oh so awesome bike. Personal gratification is getting more expensive these days. I am still thinking about what to write about him in my own mis-intepretation sort of manner...in a nutshell, he is 15, pissed with the rest of the world, raging hormones, suffering from massive inferiority complex, occasional bullying and looked down by his so-called buddies. Plus he got a massive looking forehead...Think Carrie with the power of creating the cosmos and universe, and I reckon we wouldn't be too far off from what sort of person Tetsuo is or was...whatever. The Colonel must has lost his marbles for letting the scientists recruiting Tetsuo as the 41st subject. Now, how powerful is this kid? Depends. If based on the epic manga (ere I go again), he starts off by psycho kinetically ripping an orderly into pieces, blew a gang member's head off, committed a grand scale massacre by wiping out several gangs under one roof (literally) and as the story progressed, he can withstand extreme temperatures like near zero Kelvin kind of cold, fly, teleport, walk through solid objects, absorbs and takes control of mechanical machines (like the American fighter plane and aircraft carrier), sustaining himself perfectly fine in the vacuum of space, blew a massive crater onto the moon surface for fun, caused earthquakes, electrical storms, tidal waves....as well as more mind boggling stuffs like re-creating a mini Big Bang and time/space vortex which absorbs everything in its path....and all the while under massive massive dosage of super drugs to keep himself under control (we are talking about drugs and suppressants strong enough to kill a man a thousand times over), no wonder his mind and physical body gave out...he ended up with no personality and form, finally "taken" away by a "resurrected soul" of Akira to another place...???? I still have no idea what Otomo-san is tryin to say until today....

Chloe ~ Mac Pro

...now I decided to go for a new notebook, so thought it would be time to get a Mac...til I realised they are now talking about stuffs like Intel i3 or i5 whatever, and here this old man still thought that a Core Duo would be top notch stuff...nevermind. Chloe has taken a liking to the machine, always asking where is the computer with an apple on it?

ThreeA ~ Popbot : Tomorrow Queens ~ Reimi Kawaii

"赤いウェット ピンクキス"

A (mis) interpretation:

 

Category: Mass production replicants.

Model type: The Tomorrow Queens - GEN 2.0.

Unit type: The Gorgos.

ID: Reimi Kawaii / The Red Wet Pink Kiss.
Rank: Nee-san.

Manufacturer: The Luthor Bean Jr. Corporation.

Incept date: 15th March 1990.
Serial no.:  TQG2FAB15031990.

Longevity: 4 years.

Function: Close assault.

Physical level: A.

Mental level: B.

Abilities: Panzer Kunst - anti-armour martial arts; superhuman physiology.

Std. armaments: Monomolecular-edged wakizashi x 2; monomolecular-edged katana x 2;  Ion-cyclotron glove x 2; monomolecular-edged heels x 2.

 

All Tomorrow Queens would usually be led in groups by a leader with Nee-san or Big Sister ranking, just as their male counterparts, the Tomorrow Kings are led by an Oyabun. Although their lives are short in comparison to a human, a Nee-san ranked TQ are programmed to accumulate combat experiences in a very fast manner with leadership characteristics. Their abilities are a step above the other Tomorrow Queens. One legendary series of such TQ is Reimi Kawaii whom possesses such combat skills that a single individual would be capable of decapitating five Cronus class Mortis titans in a single combat.

 

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Ere's the exclusive edition of the TQs. Comes with a "severed bot head" which has an "M" alphabet on top and a writing "Mortis Uber You" (?) on the front.

Chloe & Dylan ~ Getting "Drunk" On Milk...

Pics ~ Top to Bottom :

Dylan : Cheh Cheh, one "special" before hitting the sack.

Chloe : OK Dylan Boy.

Chloe : Here you go, try this "special". Milk + Milo + more milk!

Dylan : gulp...Whoa!!! Zoo-wee mama!

Dylan : I shall mix my own...hang on....feeling....slleeeeppppyyyyy....

Chloe : You wan some Papa? Milk is good for u! (while Dylan's looking hammered....)

...with Esther in Vietnam completing her co.'s projects, the two precious, as usual, ran wild around the household, turning it upside down, inside out...just two nights ago, they turned the side table into a mini bar of some sort, mixing a strange concoction of milk, milo and water from their half finished nightly drinks, laughing and laughing away while I tried to grab some sleep....

ThreeA ~ Popbot : Tomorrow Queens ~ Threeway Pack.

The great companion, the comfort, the mother.
Tomorrow Queen, the thorn of the Mortis.
We will be there not when you want us, but when you need us.
- write-up from the box.

Top to bottom : Yubi, Odayaka, Yumiko.

A (mis) interpretation:

Category: Mass production replicants.
Model type: The Tomorrow Queens - GEN 2.0
Unit type: The Gorgos.
ID:
Yubi-O-Tekika (指を滴下) / "Dripping Fingers."
Odayaka-na-Itami (穏やかな傷み) / "Calm and Pain."
Yumiko-Jojishi-Kishō (由美子叙事詩気性) / "Yumiko Epic Temper."
Rank: Nee-san.
Function: Close assault.
Manufacturer: The Luthor Bean Jr. Corporation.
Incept date: 8th June 1990.
Serial no.: TQG02FAB08061990.
Longevity: 4 years.
Physical level: A.
Mental level: B.
Abilities: Panzer Kunst - anti-armour martial arts; superhuman physiology.
Std. armaments:
Yumiko: LICK-A-SHOT 12 gauge semi-auto shotgun; monomolecular-edged katana x 2; monomolecular-edged wakizashi x 2; Ion cyclotron gloves x 2; monomolecular-edged heels.
Odayaka and Yubi: Monomolecular-edged katana x 2; monomolecular-edged wakizashi x 2; Ion-cyclotron gloves x 2; monomolecular-edged heels.

Yubi, Odayaka and Yumiko are much feared triptych series of the Tomorrow Queens female replicants manufactured by the Luthor Bean Jr. Corporation in an ongoing battle against Queen Mortis monstrous, corrupted machines across the massive battle fields within the Underverse, the name given to a Warp rift formed within the derelict Leviathan 1 interstellar space ship at Site 7, L3. With advanced gene seeds derive from the GEN 1.0 Tomorrow Queens, these ladies, whose DNA are replicated and cloned from former Eastasian AV actresses, they are a much feared foes of the Mortis Legion and highly revered by their creator, the shadowy dhampir lord, Luthor Bean Jr. They later gained the designation, Gorgos, due to their ferociousness during combat. One of the longest running female replicants in production, they would later become the personal retinues of Lady Sham.



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Ah, my first TQs figures from 3A, a set of three. Been looking for these ever since. Babes with killers heels. Nothing beats that. And 3D renditions from famed artist, Ashley Wood, paintings. Sexay!

Hot Toys MMS 129 ~ The Terminator 2 : T-1000

John: So this other guy? He's a terminator too, right? Like you?
T-800: Not like me. A T-1000,advanced prototype.
John: More advance than you are?
T-800: Yes. A mimetic polyalloy.
John: What the hell does that mean?
T-800: Liquid metal.

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John: You're telling me that this thing can imitate anything it touches?
T-800: Anything it samples by physical contact.
John: Get real...like it could disguise itself as anything...a pack of cigarettes?
T-800: No. Only an object of equal size.
John: Why not just become a bomb or something to get me?
T-800: It can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals, moving parts. It doesn't work that way. But it can form solid metal shapes.
John: Like what?
T-800: Knives and stabbing weapons.

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The T-1000 is one of the most memorable antagonists I have seen in moviedom for its time. It remains an iconic character, thanks to the then CGI technology which made me go "oh man" when I see what the "new" Terminator can do. Director James Cameron commented in the DVD that the T-800, in comparison to the T-1000, is like "a human panzer tank compare to a Porsche." Credit also goes to actor Robert Patrick, whose cat-like, sleek movement and those cold as steel eyes really capture the essence of the T-1000 in all its glory, just like what Arnie did in the first movie and this sequel. In the deleted scene, we see what the T-1000 can do more, like being able to scan infos through it's finger tips, maybe for DNA traces or on molecular level, and after it was briefly frozen and then "defrosted", it suffered from defects, like bonding and taking wrong coloration on the handrail, as well as giving away its disguise as Sarah Connor when John Connor saw its feet half bonded to the corrugated iron platforms in the climatic final sequence within the steel mill.

Hot Toys DX 05 Superman Christopher Reeves

My jaw dropped when I saw this in other toy sifus blogs...words around the campfire is that this will probably be the most anticipated 1/6th doll...oops...action figure of 2010. Admittedly it has a personally dull releases in the 1/6th world so far...this announcement really put back the excitement into the hobby. Tomorrow, I am gonna donate some of my organs to get funding for this.